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Business Growth Hub supports businesses at all stages of their growth journey with our broad range of services. Our resource efficiency and green technologies and services teams help businesses reduce operating costs and thrive in the green technologies and services sector.

Greater Manchester has set ambitious targets to achieve a 48% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 against 1990 levels. Seizing the potential of green technologies and services and increased resource efficiency forms a key pillar of the city region’s economic strategy. These commitments require comprehensive action, including supporting businesses within a context of severe market failure which are outlined below:

Specialist plastics manufacturer, Tatra Rotalac, is going through a significant transformation of its factory in Manchester that is pushing energy efficiency to its limits and creating jobs in the process.

Key facts

The green technologies and services sector in Greater Manchester is an increasingly important part of the local economy. Here are some key facts about the sector from 2012/13.